Challenging MP; let’s have more

Am I alone in this? – thinking, there is perhaps hope yet when among our MPs there are some who will be assertive, confident and in touch with the detailed facts surrounding an issue. This can’t be said, it seems, about those who would be champions of the ordinary citizen, by holding others to account.
How refreshing that on BBC TV Question Time (2 Feb 2012) Alan Duncan, International Development Minister of State challenged Emma Boon (Tax Payer’s Alliance) about what she really knew and understood in relation to the criticisms she was making. It transpired that she really didn’t know much and Duncan was on top of his brief.